Ionospheric corrections tailored to Galileo HAS: validation with single-epoch navigation

GPS Solutions - 2024
Cristhian Camilo Timoté1, José Miguel Juan Zornoza1, Jaume Sanz Subirana1, Adrià Rovira-García1, Guillermo González-Casado1, Raül Orús‐Pérez2, Ignacio Fernández‐Hernández3, Daniel Blonski2
1Research Group of Astronomy and Geomatics (gAGE), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), José Miguel Juan, Jordi Girona, 1-3, 08034, Barcelona, Spain
2Wave Interaction and Propagation Section, European Space Agency (ESA), Noordwijk, The Netherlands
3Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS), European Commission (EC), Brussels, Belgium

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AbstractThe Galileo high accuracy service (HAS) is a new capability of the European global navigation satellite system, currently providing satellite orbit and clock corrections and dispersive effects such as satellite instrumental biases for code and phase. In its full capability, Galileo HAS will also correct the ionospheric delay on a continental scale (initially over Europe). We analyze a real-time ionospheric correction system based on the fast precise point positioning (F-PPP), and its potential application to the Galileo HAS. The F-PPP ionospheric model is assessed through a 281-day campaign, confirming previously reported results, where the proof of concept was introduced. We introduce a novel real-time test that directly links the instantaneous position error with the error of the ionospheric corrections, a key point for a HAS. The test involved 15 GNSS receivers in Europe acting as user receivers at various latitudes, with distances to the nearest reference receivers ranging from tens to four hundred kilometers. In the position domain, the test results show that the 95th percentile of the instantaneous position error depends on the user-receiver distance, as expected, ranging in the horizontal and vertical components from 10 to 30 cm and from 20 to 50 cm, respectively. These figures not only meet Galileo HAS requirements but outperform them by achieving instantaneous positioning. Additionally, it is shown that formal errors of the ionospheric corrections, which are also transmitted, are typically at the decimeter level (1 sigma), protecting users against erroneous position by weighting its measurements in the navigation filter.

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